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the candidates specialising in domestic problems, und the other an expert on Chinese politics, who would act as liaison officer ith the Embassy. Alternative or additional methods of securing the objective would be:-
(a) the encouragement of individual officers
in all Departments to make und maintain contacts with the Chinese on the mainland, and
(b) frequent exchanges of visits between
me:bcrs of the staff ofthe Colonial Govern- ment on the one hand and His Majesty's Babassy in Chungking on the other.
Jeely
The foregoing sumariscs our present vie s on this subject. They ure, of course, quite tentative and I hope that you will comment fully upon them. If you would prefer to defer detailed consideration until your return to Hong Kong, we should propose to send to you by despatch as our tentative vices, those given above, subject to any comments you may wish to offer on them now.
Yours sincerely,
(Sgd.) T.I.K.LLOYD.